Infection

Infection is a seven-level PWAD for Doom II that requires an MBF and DEHEXTRA compatible source port. It was created by Dennis Meuwissen (Exl) and first released in March 2022. It was designed for consecutive play as opposed to pistol starts and makes use of DEHEXTRA to, among other things, add ambient sound effects to the game. The WAD utilizes the OTEX texture pack and centers around a vanilla-style techbase setting that towards the end combines with a visual theme of graphical corruption. Levels are comparatively short in length, with an easy to medium difficulty. It was uploaded to the idgames archive on April 4, 2022.

Infection was recognized with an honorable mention at the Cacowards 2022.

Custom monsters
Corrupted versions of the imp, demon and chaingunner are present in MAP06: Escape Route (Infection), with their sprites having a simulated glitched look, and both the sounds and behavior of the monsters altered compared to their regular counterparts. The corrupted imp has 80 hit points compared to the usual 60 and fires arachnotron plasma instead of fireballs. The corrupted demon has 140 hit points and attacks faster than usual, and the corrupted chaingunner only has 20 health points and fires cacodemon projectiles instead of a hitscan attack. There are also various smaller differences, such as changes to the pain chance, speed and radius, most of which are barely noticeable in-game but help to emphasize the intended glitched, buggy nature of the monsters.

Soundtrack

 * MAP01: "Cookie Fangs" by Cammy (from the Ultimate MIDI Pack)
 * MAP02: "Reaching Deeper" by Tristan Clark (from TNT: Revilution)
 * MAP03: "Library Part 2" by MuddyFunster
 * MAP04: "Hangar 7" by James Paddock (Jimmy) (from the Revolution! MIDI Pack)
 * MAP05: "Arcadia" by Velvetic (from the Alien Vendetta MIDI Pack)
 * MAP06: "No More History" by Cammy (from the Ultimate MIDI Pack)
 * MAP07: "The Anthrax Solution" by Varis Alpha (from the Alien Vendetta MIDI Pack)
 * Title screen: "No More History" by Cammy (from the Ultimate MIDI Pack)
 * Intermission: "No More History" by Cammy (from the Ultimate MIDI Pack)
 * Text screen: "Fight the Logic If You Can" (short intro) by Chris Laverdure (Dashiva) (from the Alien Vendetta MIDI Pack)

Built-in demos
This WAD features three built-in demos. All require Doom II with the PrBoom+um v2.6+ source port to view them. The demo levels are:

Current records
The DSDA episode records for Infection are:

The data was last verified in its entirety on December 19, 2022.